Arsenal star told he’d start for Liverpool if sensational January transfer takes place

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Mikel Arteta has only given Myles Lewis-Skelly 87 minutes in the top-flight this term (Picture: Getty) Jamie O’Hara has told Arsenal star Myles Lewis-Skelly that he’d be a starter in the Liverpool XI if a sensational January transfer took place. Arsenal are not looking to sell any players in January but if Lewis-Skelly managed to force a move, O’Hara says he would be starting at Liverpool.

While there is currently no indication that Liverpool will make a bid for Lewis-Skelly, O’Hara is adamant that he’d be the club’s starting left-back over Andy Robertson and £40m summer signing Milos Kerkez. Lewis-Skelly would start for Liverpool.

He’d start for most Premier League sides.’ Jamie O’Hara says the Arsenal star would start over Liverpool’s left-backs (Picture: Getty) O’Hara added: ‘Lewis-Skelly needs to be playing. As a future star, he is going to be a [regular] England international. ‘He’s a young kid who had a quick rise to fame last season [but] he’s a hugely talented footballer.’ O’Hara: Lewis-Skelly may ask to leave on loan O’Hara believes that Lewis-Skelly may ask Mikel Arteta for a loan move if Arsenal refuse to sell him in January. ‘If he genuinely wants to get into that World Cup squad and he needs to play football, he will go and ask Arteta,’ O’Hara continued. ‘He’d say, ‘Look, I want to go out on loan in January, I need to go on loan to another Premier League side and play every week’.’ Speaking exclusively to Metro in September, former Arsenal defender Nigel Winterburn rejected the idea of Lewis-Skelly going out on loan. ‘He won’t go out on loan,’ Winterburn said. ‘There’s no way I could see him going out on loan.